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Jan. 22nd, 2009 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glisharaSo, we are moving again with regards to Wesley, and we have a plan for moving forward.
Thank God.
We had another meeting today with the special education group at the local school. Early this month we had an evaluation meeting, and today, we had the meeting to come up with an education plan.
The most the district offers in his age range is 6 hours a week of school, of mornings two days a week. So that's what we'll be doing. I'm not thrilled about that, but we'll keep him going to playgroup for a few hours on Wednesdays, and that will get us up to 8. It's still vastly shy of the 30 the neurologist recommended, but it's what we can get without shelling out a lot of money.
In that 6 hours, he'll have an hour with the speech therapist, broken into 2 half-hour segments. One will be in the classroom, and she'll involve other kids and have interaction be a big part of it. The other one will be more 1-on-1. The special ed classroom teacher is also going to meet weekly with the preschool teacher who'll have Wesley in her class, to recommend exercises to help him learn what they call "adaptive behavior." As far as I can figure out, adaptive behavior means "functioning in the real world." They kept repeating the phrase "classroom skills" in relation to this: sitting at a table, standing in line, interacting with other kids, joining singalongs, waiting his turn, things like that.
So this is all going to take some time to be processed. They gave us the choice of stating him the Tuesday before February break, or the Tuesday after. We said it would probably be easier to wait, rather than have it start and stop and start again. So we'll take him by the Thursday before February break, and meet the teacher and some of the other kids and have him see the classroom. We'll be with him the whole time that day. And then after the break we'll start him for real. I am nervous, but he will probably do all right.
And now we're moving forward again! Hooray.
Thank God.
We had another meeting today with the special education group at the local school. Early this month we had an evaluation meeting, and today, we had the meeting to come up with an education plan.
The most the district offers in his age range is 6 hours a week of school, of mornings two days a week. So that's what we'll be doing. I'm not thrilled about that, but we'll keep him going to playgroup for a few hours on Wednesdays, and that will get us up to 8. It's still vastly shy of the 30 the neurologist recommended, but it's what we can get without shelling out a lot of money.
In that 6 hours, he'll have an hour with the speech therapist, broken into 2 half-hour segments. One will be in the classroom, and she'll involve other kids and have interaction be a big part of it. The other one will be more 1-on-1. The special ed classroom teacher is also going to meet weekly with the preschool teacher who'll have Wesley in her class, to recommend exercises to help him learn what they call "adaptive behavior." As far as I can figure out, adaptive behavior means "functioning in the real world." They kept repeating the phrase "classroom skills" in relation to this: sitting at a table, standing in line, interacting with other kids, joining singalongs, waiting his turn, things like that.
So this is all going to take some time to be processed. They gave us the choice of stating him the Tuesday before February break, or the Tuesday after. We said it would probably be easier to wait, rather than have it start and stop and start again. So we'll take him by the Thursday before February break, and meet the teacher and some of the other kids and have him see the classroom. We'll be with him the whole time that day. And then after the break we'll start him for real. I am nervous, but he will probably do all right.
And now we're moving forward again! Hooray.
